Every year the same things change hands here: uniform, calculators, cleats, textbooks, a ride to a game, someone who cuts hair, someone who shoots photos. None of it is written down anywhere, so none of it is searchable and none of it leaves a record. Showroom gives that market an address, a price, a name attached and a rule set.
Three things happen because it exists. They are not side effects we noticed afterwards, they are the reason the thing is built this way.
A storefront here has a unit number, a real fee on every sale, real customers who see you in the corridor on Monday, and a reply time that decides whether you grow. That is a different education from a business-plan competition, because the feedback is money and reputation rather than a grade.
Opening one is free and stays free. We take a percentage of sales that actually complete, which means we do not earn anything until a student does.
A want posted here gets answered by someone two years below you who has the thing in a cupboard. That is a transaction and also an introduction. School communities are not short of people, they are short of reasons for the right two people to talk, and a handover in the front office at 8am is a reason.
It is closed to the school on purpose. One domain, one market. Nothing here is visible outside it and nothing is indexed publicly, which is what lets people use their real names.
School uniform is outgrown on a schedule. Calculators are needed for two years and owned for one. Cleats last a season. Almost none of it is worn out when it stops being used, and almost all of it currently goes in a bag to a landfill because finding the next owner was harder than throwing it away.
Making that easy is not a campaign we run beside the marketplace. It is what a marketplace is, and it is the part that compounds: a blazer can be sold four times before it is finished.
A club that runs on goodwill folds the year its founder graduates. A business that covers its costs is still here when the people who needed it arrive. So we charge a percentage, and we are straightforward that the social outcomes above depend on the commercial one working.
The seller fee, the locker fee and the tax are on one page, worked out at every price, and the same numbers are on the button before anyone pays. Nothing is added at the card form. What things cost
Every number on this page is a live count. When a number is zero it says zero. We would rather look small than look dishonest, and the numbers are the same ones we use internally.
Sell student data, run behavioural advertising at students, put a giving leaderboard anywhere, or claim a school endorses this before it does in writing.